https://www.donga.com/news/article/all/20240213/123494924/1 According to this article, there was indeed a rumor involving Air Baltic. Despite that Donga is a major company, this article seems less reliable/believable (to me), so I wouldn't read too much from it. For instance, it says KE is planning ...
Jump to posthttp://www.kukinews.com/newsView/kuk202311200288 (in Korean) It was confirmed late last year that the sole 747 pax will retire in March. This aligns with the (soft) 25-year rule for passenger fleet imposed by the government, and also what Asiana has practiced for a while. The sole 767 has also reach...
Jump to postA few years ago, Asiana began to remove anything older than 25 y.o. (passenger fleet) due to government pressure, and with that, 767 and 747 retired one by one, leaving one each. These two were manufactured in 1998, so it may retire either this year (or at most next year). The sole A320 is due to le...
Jump to postThere normally isn't a change of departing cities unless service has been pulled, regardless the customer is notified at each change. Departure airport of my reservation was changed from LIH to HNL when there was a significant schedule change earlier this year. Yet AA still flies into LIH and the f...
Jump to postThere normally isn't a change of departing cities unless service has been pulled, regardless the customer is notified at each change. Departure airport of my reservation was changed from LIH to HNL when there was a significant schedule change earlier this year. Yet AA still flies into LIH and the f...
Jump to postI see more intra Hawaii flights from Sep 6th. LIH-OGG NEW 1/day HNL-OGG 6 to 11/day HNL-LIH 4 to 6 HNL-KOA 4 to 6 HNL-ITO 4 to 5 KOA-OGG no change (1/day) And some of the Hawaii flights are connected to elsewhere on the same flight number (not sure if it were like this already). For instance, LAS-OG...
Jump to postKorean FTC conditionally approved the merger. http://koreabizwire.com/s-korean-regulator-gives-conditional-approval-to-korean-air-asiana-merger/211900 On top of some fare regulation, there will be airport slot and operational right divest condition if anyone else wants to enter specific markets. For...
Jump to postWith the absorption of Asiana and the resultant elimination of some of the overlap, I would think that KE will have plenty of slots available to make a reasonable remediation offer. Add in up gauging and Asiana's position at GMP, ICN will be fine. But, what is limiting the capacity? Given ICN's loc...
Jump to postThanks for updating the concession. IND pre-security dining option is one of the best for the size with affordable choices (McD & Chick Fil A) and almost no price mark-up. Post-security choice has always been less optimal (local fancy but pricey slow) so many of those who are used to the airport...
Jump to post737Jason wrote:Does anybody know what the "Surprise" Southwest has for thier customers starting on the 15th? My Guess is maybe 50 dollar flights......
usflyer msp wrote:This isn't ITI this is ITD. ITI is not such a big deal as the bags never enter the US. ITD via x-ray has never been tried before.
IINM DFW has ITI and has for a while (MIA does too). This isn’t a new program. It’s been trialed at other airports too. Hmm when I read the linked article again, it doesn't explicitly mention int-to-domestic transfer. If it's limited to international-to-international transfer, you're correct that t...
Jump to posthttps://www.newswise.com/articles/dhs-partners-with-south-korea-for-aviation-security There will be a pilot program in this summer that those taking Delta from ICN and transfer at ATL to a domestic flight may not need to claim and re-check checked bags. Images of contents of all the bags will be tra...
Jump to postHmm interesting as their 380s have been operational through the pandemic 380 was useful because airlines were allowed to operate only one passenger flight per week between China and another country at the beginning of pandemic and the airfare was sky high. Still useful as the restriction is (somewh...
Jump to postSpeaking of finance lease, if for example a frame is on a lease and the airline decides to get rid of it, would it being a general lease or a financial lease make it more likely that the frame will be scrapped? I know that in the case of Air France's A380s the one that got scrapped so far was one t...
Jump to postIt will even be easier for them to keep their own. They own their A380s but OZ doesn't. OZ barely owns anything really All of OZ A380s are in finance lease, meaning it would be extremely challenging to dispose. Not impossible, just costly. All the other Airbus fleet OZ has are in operating lease al...
Jump to postIt will even be easier for them to keep their own. They own their A380s but OZ doesn't. OZ barely owns anything really All of OZ A380s are in finance lease, meaning it would be extremely challenging to dispose. Not impossible, just costly. All the other Airbus fleet OZ has are in operating lease al...
Jump to postIn Sep or Oct, B6 is to operate 24-25 flights ex-LAX. After adding 7 destinations, the number is going only up to 32 per day, which means most will see only one flight per day. That doesn't sound competitive unless frequencies on the existing routes are cut.
Jump to postOn a different, but AUS-related topic: I found an old NWA timetable from 8 Feb 1989. Living in AUS now, I was shocked to discover an almost-daily (X6, if I recall...or perhaps X7) departure to SAT, a trip of only 70 miles and 0:35 according to the timetable. A friend who grew up in AUS was surprise...
Jump to postWN is pumping in more & more flights for June, looks like they are having trouble keeping up with demand with the capacity caps: - Up to 5 flights to ATL on June 27th, I believe that is the most ever operated on that route. Also scheduled 4x daily from June 21-26, up 2 flights from their origin...
Jump to postInsertnamehere wrote:Does anyone know if the American Express centurion lounge is going to be moved, and/or when?
More details: - 747-8 replaces 747-400 from Nov 2021, 3 years earlier than when the US is expected to replace its air force one to 747-8. - KE won the proposal of $242M for 5 years using 747-8 while Asiana failed its A380 bid which was priced at least 33% higher than KE. - Breakdown of $242M: leasin...
Jump to postFINALLY! ... but 2 instead of 3 a day. 10am flight is cancelled. 3 a day comes back from Sep 8th-Oct 23rd, but either way I would much rather have 2xCR9 than 3x CR2. From my understanding, IND-YYZ 6am is mostly O&D and intra Canada connections, IND-YYZ 4-5pm is mostly about TATL connections, so...
Jump to postzackary747 wrote:Midwestindy wrote:AC IND-YYZ is switching to the CR9 starting May 1-September 7
FINALLY!
Just read on the NZ Aviation thread that NZ has amended its planned schedule to have five different arrival times for five weekly flights when they start service next month. I guess that says something about the availability of slots at ICN. Yes, it looks like a bad situation. Once a week, NZ fligh...
Jump to postOther airlines had to squeeze among whatever available: LO is adding 730am departure, and NZ soon have 8pm arrival. UA's #2 SFO started with a day-to-day schedule variation due to the slot problem. KE has one of the biggest portfolios of slots at ICN so they certainly can play around a bit - reduce...
Jump to postNow ICN slots are practically full during daytime. And yet DL could add MNL in the peak hours. In fact, slot situation has been like that for the number of years but DL added MSP also in the peak hours. How? Other airlines had to squeeze among whatever available: LO is adding 730am departure, and N...
Jump to postLooks like B6 offers free cancellation whereas all other airlines offer free change only. Free cancellation is a much better option when people paid extra $$ for the labor day weekend.
Edit: AS, too.
LAXintl wrote:However its also been stated by the Japanese government they would like to beef up additional regional links such as to ASEAN, so the awards might favor such flying instead of longhauls.
If that is the case then whatever happened to KE's B738 service to MNL? I believe KE sends their B773/B77W and the occasional A333/B744 to MNL but if they cant get anymore slots, wouldn't it just make sense if KE sends their B748i on their 2x daily rotation and the B777 replacing the B738 service? ...
Jump to postJ343 wrote:KE unable to get more slots at MNL? .
Korea-Philippines is in open-sky except MNL, so KE doesn't have any room to add ICN-MNL. This route therefore doesn't have much LCC (compared to other similar-distanced routes) although airfare is already fairly low. Korea-Singapore bilateral is fully utilized at the moment where KE is operating 17-...
Jump to postMIflyer12 wrote:Based on yesterday's market cap of KRX (Marketwatch), a 10% stake looks to cost about US $268 million.
KE tends to select fleets based on whether any part is manufactured by KE or it can expand engine maintenance portfolio. Due to the latter point, KE hasn’t been an RR customer for decades. Wonder if things will flip this time.
Jump to postThe only restriction is that ICN is full. No slots between, say, 8am and 10pm. The airport still manages to arrange some slightly-less-perfect slots to new long-haul flights but no such privilege for intra-Asia or other short-distance flights. Airspace, therefore slot, is full because of the militar...
Jump to postIND is hitting 737 max ground effect: WN removed IND-OAK and one of IND-PHX in June, and probably also for July (these flights appear as sold out).
Jump to postI feel bad for him. Although some of the family members made noise occasionally, without the family's hardline to the others, KE wouldn't have survived. KE is constantly feeling pressure from politicians and celebrities for free upgrades. Or even free tickets and sponsorships. Only the famous attitu...
Jump to postAsiana has 2 744pax, HL7418 (Sep 1994) and HL7428 (Jun 1999) HL7418 is to retire in Sep 2019. Korean law bans 25yo passenger fleet and that's why one Asiana 767 was retired earlier this year. No info for the other one. Korean Air has 2 744pax, HL7402 (Dec 1998) and HL7461 (Jun 1997) They won't be re...
Jump to postSEA-NRT is A350 until 8/30, A330neo from the next day. That extra A350 will be used for ATL-AMS. The routing appears to be DTW-AMS-ATL and VV, still anchored at DTW.
Jump to postI don't think this is the company's first hiccup, and certainly won't be the last. Asiana has been in the borderline bankrupt on the paper for the number of years but it still manages to operate fine and is still loved by passengers.
Jump to postUntil recently I thought UA could launch ORD-ICN, but after looking at some statistics I've become more skeptical. (It's in Korean, https://cafe.naver.com/dragoner/12356 - ICN Top 30 routes for number of pax transiting / % of pax transiting) 47% of ICN-ORD pax are connecting at ICN. So O&D is n...
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Seat map was shared nearly a year ago.
In total, 50 new slots are being created at HND airport for 2020. Of the 50, half are going to Japanese (x13) and US (x12) carriers. Information per link below. It sounds like the US government agreeing to allow some flight paths over US military air space will help with Tokyo airspace congestion i...
Jump to postKinda hidden in today’s inaugural coverage but NK will start ATL service May 23. AUS-ATL could use a ULCC. On top of that, NK just added a second daily to LAS from Sep. On a sidenote, Alaska is moving to all mainline operation at AUS - SAN from Apr, SJC from late Aug: https://www.routesonline.com/n...
Jump to postDo not dismiss the growing international networks of ANA and JAL at Haneda which already benefit their U.S. JV partners. Good point, but HND-Asia flights spread out throughout the day (and night), making it less efficient to transfer. Meanwhile NRT-Asia flights leave almost altogether. We'll see if...
Jump to postPrevious rumors were 4 or 8. 12 is just too many. HND is adding 39000 slots in time for the Olympics, which translates into 49 and HALF of them (12 to US carriers and presumably another 12 for Japanese carriers to the US) is likely used for US-Japan. AA-JL and UA-NH won't move all/most US-NRT flight...
Jump to postB6 is finally adding a second frequency on BOS-AUS. This is way overdue. Sadly both flights are somewhat BOS oriented - 7am and 11am departure from BOS; 3pm and 7pm departure from AUS. Both A320. Great to see WN bringing up ABQ-AUS and SJC to a daily flight each. They've been operating on only one ...
Jump to postHow many daily departures does Delta have at IND... If it wouldn’t be too much, how many are mainline v regional.... 41 next summer Mainline 21 flights IND-ATL 10x MD88 IND-MSP 3x A319 IND-MSP 2x B717 IND-CDG 1x B767 IND-DTW 1x A321 IND-LAX 1x B738 IND-SLC 1x B738 IND-MCO 1x A320 IND-SEA 1x A319 Re...
Jump to postITSTours wrote:I want ORD/EWR/IAD-ICN.
I know it's not going to happen.
I still want it.
I know that DEN has a gate shortage right now, but who exactly is going to be occupying *16* additional C gates, let alone the A gates being added? B, I get; I actually thought UA would want more than they're getting. I can't see WN taking all of the new C gates; that'd be a lot of growth, and I'm ...
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